This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Someone in France, a few years ago built a piano with a curved keyboard, = and pedal assembly. Quite interesting. Didn't seem to strike a chord with anyone at the time, as far as I know! Bob Moffatt & Sons Piano Calgary, Alberta Canada (403) 243-0385 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------- ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Don=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 10:25 PM Subject: Re: key levelling -- crown? Hi Susan, Curved keyboard has already been done. One of my books = somewhere....grrrr.=20 At 08:34 PM 11/16/01 -0800, you wrote: >At 10:17 PM 11/16/2001 -0600, you wrote: > >> >Has anyone given thought to the possibility that the crown was to >> >accommodate the ergonomic fact that the tendency of the hand to = lower >> >when being extended from the body center? >> > >> > Newton > >Not really. But reading your idea did give me a momentary mental = picture -- >a keyboard in a slight arc surrounding the player, so that the = player's >hands could approach the keys at the extremes of the scale without >kinking the wrists. > >It would be so much more comfortable to play that I'm sure many = people have >considered building something that way. The trouble is that it would >be a bear to design and build. > >Educated list members? Has anyone built a keyboard where the keys >fan out around the player like that? > >Susan=20 > > Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. mailto:drpt@sk.sympatico.ca http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/3c/79/26/1c/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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